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. PATENTED JAN; 12, 1904.

w. H. PARKER. APPARATUS FORPREBARING' MATCH STOCK.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 29. 1902.

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I ATTORNEY UNITED STATES Patented January 12, 1964.

PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM H. PARKER, OF PASSAIC, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO PARKER MATCHCOMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

APPARATUS FOR PREPARING MATCH-STOCK.

SRECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 749,218, dated. January12, 1904.

Application filed December 29, 1902. Serial No. 136,937. (No model.)

' To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that. 1, WILLIAM H. PARKER, [of ,Passaic, Passaic county,New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inApparatus for Preparing Match- Stock, of which the following is a full,clear,

and exact description. I

My invention relates to improvements in a means for preparingmatch-stock, such as veneers or similar -materials, to fit them formaking matches.

My invention is especially applicable to preparing stock for theprocesses illustrated in Letters Patent of the United States No. 703,453, dated J my 1, 1902, and No. 704,091, dated July 8, 1902. In theprocesses referred to the strips of stock, which are of approximatelythe width of the match length, have.

their edges prepared for dipping in the several compositions and arethen either rolled up and dipped ordipped and then cut, as the case maybe. It has been my practice heretofore to take the stock as it came outof the veneer-machine and then pass it through a separate machine toprepare it for dipping and cutting; but I have found thatby putting anattachment on an ordinary veneer-machine I can prepare the stock at thesame time the veneer is turned, and thus eliminate one machine from theprocess, thereby cheapening to a certain extent the cost of the finishedmatches. My present invention has this end in view, and other objects ofit are to produce an apparatus which can be convenientlyapplied to anyordinary veneei machine and which would be drivenfrom the log beingturned. This latter is an important feature, as it is known that when alog is first started the velocity of the veneer when it is turned fromthe log is much greater thanit-is after the log has been reduced insize, and. by driving my apparatusfrom the log the speed is therebyalways proportioned to the circumferential speed of the log and to thevelocity of the veneer as it leaves the log.

With these ends in View my invention consists of certain features ofconstruction and combinations of parts which will be hereinafterdescribed and claimed.

cutter.

Reference is to be hadto the accompanying similar parts throughout theseveral views.

Figure 1 is a sectional elevation showing diagrammatically the mainparts of one type of veneer-machine with my apparatus connectedtherewith. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the apparatus. Fig. 3 is amuch-enlarged detail of the rotary cutter which operates on the stock.Fig. 4 is a broken plan view of the Fig. 5 is a detail sectional viewshowing a means of ejecting the chips from the cutter; and Fig. 6 is adetail view of the stock, showing its appearance after it is prepared.

In the drawings I have shown a log 10 as it would appear in a commonform of veneer- .machine having any usual driving-wheel, and

the machine is shown with the customary knife-feed, which has nothing todo with this invention and which comprises the gear 11, the pinion 12,and the screw-and-ratchet feed 13, driven from the pinion 12 andadvancing the knife-bar 14.

p The machine is shown with a knife-bar 14, having a knife 15 the lengthof the log, and above the knife-bar is the pressure-bar 16, carrying thespur-knives 17, which separate the veneer-sheet as it is turned into aseries of strips 18, the width of which corresponds to the length of thematch-splints.

I have shown the above mechanism only sufliciently to illustratethe useof my apparatus, but with no idea of claiming it and with tary cutter22, which is carried by the shaft 23. The two shafts 21 and 23 areconnected by gears 24, so that both will turn oppositely and in unison,so that the stock may be fed by the action of the cutter between thecutter and the bearing-roller 20. I have shown the shaft 21 supported inthe forked end 25 of the frame 26, which at its other end is forked, asshown at 27, and provided with handles 28, by which it may be raised andswung on the shaft 21, the forkedend 27 carrying also the shaft 30 of adriving-roller 29, which rides on the log 10. This roller or wheel 29can be provided with spurs or roughened to give it a better hold on thelog, if desired. The shaft 30 has a sprocket-wheel-31, connecting by abelt 32 with a sprocketwheel 33 on the shaft 21, so that the shaft 21will be driven by the contact of the driving roller or wheel 29 with thelog.

I have shown the shaft 21, carrying a form of rotary cutter 22, whichhas circumferential knives 24 parallel with the axis of the cutter,these knives being short and spaced the distance apart which correspondsto the width of a match-splint, so that they will notch the ends of thestock, as shown in Fig. 6. At the inner ends of the end rows of theknives 34 are short cross-knives 35, and in the middle rows of knives 34the knives 35 appear at each end of the knives 34, because, as will beseen by reference to Fig. 2, the end knives on the cutter have merely tocut one edge of a strip, while the middle knives cut simultaneously themeeting edges of two strips.

As will be seen, the knives 34 cut transversely of the stock 18, whilethe knives 35 cut parallel therewith and cut off the portions which aresplit by the knives 34, so as to leave the stock as shown at 19 in Fig.6. The severed chips are'likely to stick between theter will alwayscorrespondto the speed of thestock 18 and that the several strips ofstock will be simultaneously cut, and I have'shown.

a simple form of rotary cutter without intending to limit the inventionto this precise form of cutter.

When the stock leaves the cutter, it can beleft straight, but it ispreferably rolled up, as

shown in the drawings and as illustrated in. one of my former patentsreferred to,- so asto prepare it for dipping. To this end theusualspindle 37 is provided for rolling up the stock 18, the spindle beingdriven by a belt 38, connecting it with the shaft 33. When the stock isrolled up, a web 39' is rolled in with it to keep the edges of the stocksepa- I do not limit.

rated for dipping purposes, and I have shown the several webs as beingunwound from the shaft 40.

I have not shown the means of supporting the several shafts in thedrawings, because obviously they might be sustained in a bearing orframework, and, as above remarked, the invention lies chiefly in arotary cutter operating on the stock, as described, and driven from thelog which is being reduced.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

-1. The combination with a rotary veneermachine, of a rotary cutteracting on the veneer-stock as it leaves the machine and operating to cutequidistant rectangular notches in the edges of the stock, and means fordriving the cutter from the face of the log to maintain the ratio oftravel between the stock and the cutter.

2. The combination with a rotary veneermachine, of a rotary cutteracting on the veneer-stock as it leaves the machine and operating to cutrectangular notches in one-edges of the stock, the notches on one edgecoming opposite the projection formed by the notches on the opposededge, and means for operating the cutter from the surface of the log inthe machine.

3. The combination with a rotary veneermachine, ofa rotary cutter actingon the veneer-stock as it leaves the machine and operating to cutnotchesin the edges of the stock, the notches on one edge comingopposite the projection formed by the notches on the opposed edge, a setof gears operating the cutter, said gears being of the same size, aswinging frame supporting the gears and serving to hold. afriction-wheel to engage'the surface of the log in the machine, andmeans for operating the gears from thefriction-wheel.

4. The combination with a rotary veneermachine, of a rotary cutterarranged to cut transversely and longitudinally of the stock so as toform rectangular notches in the edges ofthe same, a vertically-swingingframe connected to the cutting mechanism and having its free endextending over the log, a frictionwheel carried by the frame and ridingon the log, a set of gearsjournaled in the frame and operating thecutting mechanism, and means for operating the gears from thefrictionwheel to maintain the speed of the cutters in relation to thetravel of the stock.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM H. PARKER.

In presence of- W. B. HUTGHINSON, J. G. DUNBAR;

